Sorry for any cross posting... Last weekend to visit Feral Trade Café.
This is the last weekend for visiting the Feral Trade Café by Kate Rich at Furtherfield's HTTP Gallery in North London. Exhibition: Free entry Fri - Sun 12 noon - 5pm Last day - Sun 2 Aug 2009. http://www.http.uk.net/ Feral Trade Café has been open to and experienced by a diverse public for nearly 8 weeks now. Serving food and drink that has been traded via physical, social networks, Feral Trade Café by artist Kate Rich (AU) provides a convivial setting from which to contemplate broader changes to our climate and economies, where conventional supply chains (for food delivery and cultural funding) could go belly up. View Video about Feral Trade by William Shaw from RSA Arts & Ecology on Vimeo. http://artsandecology.rsablogs.org.uk/2009/07/27/feral_trade/ View article & discussion by Rejina on 'Gastrogeek' with Kate Rich about the exhibition/Café. http://gastrogeek.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/wasted-again/ Feral Trade uses social and cultural hand baggage to transport grocery items between cities, often using other artists and curators as mules. The exhibition includes a retrospective display of Feral Trade products (2003-present), alongside ingredient route maps, bespoke food packaging, video and other artefacts from the Feral Trade network. The café will stock and serve a selection of Feral Trade goods from a menu including coffee from El Salvador, hot chocolate from Mexico and sweets from Montenegro, as well as locally sourced bread, vegetables and herbs. Along with their food and drink, diners will be served waybills detailing the socially facilitated transit of goods to their plate. Read more about the exhibition and associated events. http://www.http.uk.net/exhibitions/FeralTradeCafe/index.shtml ----------> Furtherfield - online media arts community. http://www.furtherfield.org HTTP Gallery - physical media arts Gallery (London). http://www.http.uk.net Furthernoise - online media arts music community. http://www.furthernoise.org Netbehaviour - email list community for discussion. http://www.netbehaviour.org Furtherfield Blog - shared space for personal reflections on media art practice. http://blog.furtherfield.org VisitorsStudio - real-time, multi-user, online arena for creative 'many to many' dialogue, networked performance and collaborative polemic. http://www.visitorsstudio.org ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre